can’t tell you how many fist fights I lost in grade school because I was always giving people that Captain Kirk karate chop to the neck and no one ever was knocked out, they just punched me in the face
Call me crazy but I want a society where everyone from the artist to the janitor is paid a living wage, where careers and creative hobbies aren’t being stolen by machines, where books and music and learning are celebrated instead of demeaned.
this is a time capsule sealed and placed here in 1999, imagine the wonder the people of 2029 will experience when they open it and discover an AOL sign-up disc, a copy of Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, a Motorola phone pager, a pair of “headphones” and a Limp Bizkit CD
people don’t talk enough about how they meet someone and then they’re like omg we’re gonna have sex, and they randomly choose one side of the bed and that becomes THEIR SIDE OF THE BED for 40 years
as someone who grew up on Hanna Barbera cartoons in the 60s, it’s amazing to me that you can still buy Flintstones vitamins; it’s like if you could still buy Magilla Gorilla protein supplements
I need more and more people to come to the conclusion that artificial intelligence is by necessity an exploitative project. It does not create, it only takes. It does not innovate, it only imitates - and poorly, at that.
Love this. @clairerousay shares touching new song 'it could be anything' - she's breaking open mainstream tropes, embracing pop while simultaneously undermining it.
https://t.co/Bw1Qm7L1La
Maybe AI taking over everything is good because eventually the entire internet will just be infinite robots trying to sell things to each other and we’ll all have to log off and go squinting into the sunlight for something else to do
At some point, what’s the difference between a “government worker” and just a guy digging a hole on the side of the freeway? I have a right to be here. I have a right to dig